Our Lady, Queen of All Saints
1. Because she it the mother of Jesus, the 2nd person of the Trinity
2. Graces
3. Assumed..
Thomas Aquinas
1. Written well of Him
2. Jesus in the Eucharist (Blessed Sacrament)
3. Domincans
Aloyisius Gonzaga
1. “I was born for greater things”
2. Youth. Because he sought purity at a young age...a good example
3. Crucifix
St. Christopher
1. Christ bearer
2. St. Christopher determined to follow the ‘mightiest of kings.’ His search led him to a hermit who told him about the greatest king of all: Christ. Christopher encountered Christ in the form of a child who became heavier and heavier as he carried Him across a stream.
John Eudes
1. A badge with the hearts of Jesus and Mary
2. Salvation of souls
3. August 19
Peter Claver
1. Black (negro) slaves) in the West Indies
2. Peter Claver spent forty years ministering as a priest and physician to the slaves in the West Indies. Over 40,000 were baptized during his apostolate.
Vincent Ferrer
1. 8
2. Missionary work
3. 2
Catherine of Sienna
1. Penance and prayer
2. Return to Rome
3. Offered it up for all Christians
Mary Magdalen
1. At a dinner at Simon’s house
2. Easter morning near the tomb
3. Followed him, helped him, and did penance.
Isaac Joques
1. Canada.
2. Yes - because he initially refused efforts to free him, wanting to do God’s will.
3. Killed with a tomahawk and scalped in a Iroquois wigwam.
Pius X
1. “To restore all things in Christ, so that Christ may be all in all”
2. Through frequent communion.
3. Joseph Sarto - born poor.
Stanislaus Koska
1. The Virgin Mary.
2. His brother, father and the Lutherans.
3. The Assumption at age 17.
Nicholas
1. The poor, the innocent (wronged) and children.
2. Santa Claus.
3. Russia.
Thomas the Apostle
1. Because he wouldn’t believe Christ had risen without seeing him personally.
2. Parthia (Iran) and the Indies (India).
3. A twin brother.
Charles Borromeo
1. Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, Italy.
2. Seminarians and catechists.
3. Did public penance, served the sick, ate plain food and slept on straw or boards.
Bridget
1. No, they separated to live holier lives.
2. The Passion of Christ.
3. Her daughter (Catherine) became a saint.
Rose of Lima
1. The Americas (South).
2. To help her parents, who lost their money.
3. As a little child.
Matthew the Evangelist
1. A tax collector for the Romans
2. The Jews.
3. Ethiopia.
Leo the Great
1. Attila the Hun and Genseric.
2. To condemn heresies.
3. A person (angel) with a drawn sword nearby Leo.
John of God
1. The poor and the suffering.
2. 40.
3. “Labor without stopping; do all the good works you can while you still have the time.”
Bernadette Soubirous
1. Blue and white.
2. “I am the Immaculate Conception.”
3. A miraculous stream began to flow.
Sebastian
1. Making the sign of the cross over the woman’s head.
2. No, he lived.
3. Through a miraculous appearance after death to a holy woman.
Francis de Sales
1. Preaching, kindness and writing.
2. Order of the Visitation.
3. Geneva.
Gregory the Great
1. England.
2. The liturgy of the Mass and Divine Office.
3. Choir boys and singers?
Benedict Labre
1. The Bible.
2. As a pilgrim.
3. Shrines.
Philip Neri
1. Confession and communion.
2. Congregation of the Oratory.
3. ‘Cheerful’ holiness.
Boniface
1. Germany.
2. Destroyed pagan temples and sacred trees, corrected abuses, and built religious houses.
3. 52.
John the Baptist
1. He had (married) his brother’s wife.
2. The ‘voice of one crying in the wilderness.’
3. Wore camel’s skin garment, abstained from strong drink, ate locusts, lived in the desert.
St. Cyril and Methodius
1. They were brothers.
2. Moravia, Bohemia, Poland and neighboring countries.
3. The Slavonic alphabet.
Thomas More
1. The king of heaven.
2. He was beheaded.
3. Because Henry VIII wanted to make himself the head of the Church of England.
Gabriel of our Lady
1. Faithfulness to prayer, love of sacrifie and a joyful spirit.
2. After his death.
3. Because he loved Mary and the suffering of Jesus.
John Bosco
1. Prayer and sacraments.
2. Young boys.
3. By putting on shows using things he had seen in the circus.
Louise de Marillac
1. St. Vincent de Paul.
2. As Christ.
3. No...she had a son.
Gemma Galgani
1. Various diseases.
2. 25.
3. None - the Passionists rejected her.
George
1. Satan...the dragon of the Bible.
2. Soldier.
3. The Holy Land.
Rita
1. She prayed for him at the time of his death.
2. A supernatural prick of a thorns of the crucifix.
3. Yes (the Augustinians).
Angela Merici
1. Teach the children catechism.
2. The Ursulines.
3. Teaching.
John Mary Vianney
1. Parish priests.
2. No...he was a slow learner.
3. 18 hours.
Matthew the Evangelist
1. The Jews.
2. Tax collector.
3. Ethiopia.
Michael the Archangel
1. Who is like God.
2. The Church.
3. Pride and disobedience to God.
Bernard
1. Why have I come here?
2. Preach a crusade in France and Germany.
3. Lead a holy life and to save his soul.
Jane Frances de Chantal
1. St. Francis de Sales.
2. Faith.
3. 87.
Augustine
1. St. Ambrose.
2. (North) Africa.
3. His mother, St. Monica.
Edward
1. Attend Mass.
2. No.
3. 27.
Ignatius Loyola
1. Lives of the Saints.
2. The Holy Father (Pope)
3. Jesuits.
Jerome
1. Pray, study and do penance in the desert.
2. In Rome.
3. Translating the Scriptures into Latin (Vulgate).
Stephen
1. Deacon.
2. Jesus (Son of Man).
3. By the apostles praying and placing (laying) their hands on them.
Barnabas
1. The gentiles.
2. Cyprus, as a martyr.
3. Paul.
John Nepomucene Neumann
1. 8.
2. Takes his vows as a Redemptorist.
3. A parochial school system.
Martin of Tours
1. 3.
2. Christ (in disguise).
3. Soldiers.
Maria Soledad
1. The Virgin Mary.
2. Madrid, Spain.
3. In their homes.
Ignatius of Antioch
1. 7.
2. No (in Rome).
3. Be faithful to God and obey superiors.
Ambrose
1. Arianism.
2. Wisdom.
3. A Doctor of the Church.
John of the Cross
1. Barefoot.
2. God and your soul.
3. No...they threw him in prison and disgraced.
Agnes
1. Made the sign of the cross.
2. Lightning struck him blind.
3. Agnus - lamb.
Patrick
1. Bishop.
2. A shamrock.
3. False.
Mark
1. Peter.
2. Alexandria, Egypt.
3. Paul.
Peregrine
1. Because he was cured of cancer himself.
2. The Virgin Mary.
3. The same person: St. Philip Benizi
Peter
1. Near the ground (downwards).
2. Pope.
3. Rock.
Anne
1. Grandmother.
2. They prayer.
3. Mary was offered to service in the temple at an early age.
Helen (Helena)
1. 84.
2. Through the healing of a incurably sick woman who touched the cross.
3. Constantine, the first Christian Roman Emperor.
Francis of Assisi
1. He gave up great material possessions (wealth).
2. The wounds of Christ (stigmata).
3. Catholic Action.
Joachim
1. Nazareth.
2. On the site of their home.
3. Anne and the Virgin Mary.
Lawrence
1. The poor and the sick.
2. Deacon.
3. With humor (telling them to turn him over).
Therese of the Child Jesus
1. A statue of the Virgin Mary smiled at her.
2. To love and trust in God.
3. Roses.
Barbara
1. Tried to kill her with a sword.
2. Fire consumed him.
3. Because she spend much of her life in prison.
Lucy
1. Holy Spirit.
2. Receiving communion.
3. The Roman governor.
John the Evangelist
1. The Virgin Mary.
2. 90.
3. Boiled in oil.
Pius V
1. Turks.
2. He carried them out.
3. Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.
Maximilian Kolbe
1. Knight of the Immaculate.
2. August 14.
3. Though hunger, thirst and neglect.
Francis Xavier
1. Portugal.
2. Japan and China.
3. A glove and a flame.
Andrew
1. Peter.
2. X.
3. Russia and Poland.
Catherine Laboure
1. Jesus.
2. The Miraculous Medal.
3. France.
Martin de Porres
1. Healing.
2. All of his life.
3. South America.
Anthony Mary Claret
1. The Eucharist and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
2. Spain and Cuba.
3. Claretians.
Bartholomew
1. Nathaniel.
2. His skin was cut from his body.
3. Arabia and India.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
1. No...she converted in 1804.
2. Baltimore.
3. No...she was the first native-born saint.
Cecilia
1. Because she renewed her vow of virginity while her wedding music played.
2. Steam and sword.
3. In the catacombs of Rome.
Elizabeth
1. A hospital.
2. Roses.
3. Hungary.
Jude Thasseus
1. In the name of Jesus.
2. The images fell to the ground.
3. Beaten to death with a club.
Raphael the Archangel
1. One (Tobit).
2. ‘God has healed.’
3. Protect him and gave him a good wife.
Teresa of Avila
1. God.
2. St. Joseph.
3. Prayer.
Luke the Evangelist
1. No.
2. Luke and Acts.
3. Physician.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
1. The Sacred Heart.
2. His burning love for us.
3. (First) Friday.
Gerard Majella
1. Because of miraculous things which happened through his intercession.
2. False accusation from an evil woman.
3. God’s will.
Tarcisius
1. The eucharist.
2. Acolyte.
3. It disappeared.
Clare
1. St. Francis of Assisi.
2. Great wealth.
3. The Blessed Sacrament.
John Berchmans
1. Altar boys.
2. The rosary, crucifix and book of rules.
3.. No, he was preparing for it.
Paul the Apostle
1. Beheaded.
2. He hated and persecuted them.
3. Epistles.
Anthony of Padua
1. Tongue.
2. Preach.
3. Miracles.
Dominic
1. A zeal for souls.
2. The rosary.
3. Heresy.
Alphonsus Liguori
1. Go to Mass.
2. Missions.
3. A moment of his time.
James the Greater
1. To be the first martyr.
2. John the Aposle.
3. Two (John and Peter).
Vincent de Paul
1. Converted him to Christianity.
2. The needy/poor.
3. 80 years old.
Bonventure
1. Jesus (the crucifix).
2. St. Francis and the name means ‘good fortune.’
3. Doctor.
Camillus of Lellus
1. Study grammar with children.
2. Christ.
3. Hospitals.
Maria Goretti
1. Forgiveness.
2. A knife.
3. Purity.
Basil the Great
1. Freedom to worship and the Arian heresy.
2. Pride.
3. 4.
John Nepomucene
1. He refused to divulge what the queen said in her confession.
2. A strange brightness.
3. Service to God.
John Baptist de la Salle
1. Education.
2. Divided them into grades.
3. The Blessed Sacrament.
Madeleine Sophie Barat
1. Sanctification of souls.
2. 105.
3. The education of young girls.
Joan of Arc
1. St. Michael.
2. Jesus, Mary.
3. France.
Dymphna
1. Marry his own daughter.
2. Ireland.
3. They were beheaded.
Robert Bellermine
1. The Vatican Library.
2. The Protestant Reformation.
3. Catechisms.
Philip and James
1. James.
2. Crucified Asia Minor.
3. Thrown from a building and killed with a sword.
Dominic Savio
1. St. John Bosco.
2. Confession and Communion.
3. A vision of heaven.
Peter Canisius
1. The Sacred Heart.
2. Germany.
3. His preaching and writing.
Paul of the Cross
1. Three nails.
2. Italy.
3. The Passion of Jesus.
Isidore the Farmer
1. Angels.
2. Daily Mass.
3. God.
Joseph
1. Carpenter.
2. Through an angel in a dream.
3. Happy death and the Universal Church.
Isidore of Seville
1. Books.
2. No...he originally failed his studies.
3. Teacher, ruler, founder and reformer.
Gabriel the Archangel
1. Messenger.
2. Daniel.
3. Hail Mary.
Francis Cabrini
1. The United States.
2. The first American citizen to become a saint.
3. Orphanages, schools and hospitals.
Benedict
1. Pray and work.
2. A raven.
3. The teachers of Europe.
Anthony the Abbot
1. Prayer and sacrifice.
2. The first monastery.
3. Because of his many miracles.